Last week, in the days before Thanksgiving, I packed up my stuff and took an express train from Chicago to St. Louis. In addition to my clothes and toiletries, I brought my laptop, my iPad, several books, a knitting project, a cross-stitch project, and the notebook that incubates my fledgling novel. It was, admittedly, a lot of stuff to tote across the state of Illinois. Particularly considering this was a trip to visit a big chunk of my family and, you know, spend time with them. But I know from experience that these family visits have a way of including long periods of sitting, resting, downtime, and napping, and I’m not much of a napper. I wanted to make sure that when quiet time came, I was prepared to take advantage of it (bonus points if I could do so in a way that couldn’t be classified as “working”).
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